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Dead lives again
EXPLORING history; issues of identity and the need to survive, director, writer and Naledi winnei Monageng Vice Motshabi is bringing Sizwe Banzi Is Dead back to the Market Theatre this season. The award-winning play was cowritten by John Kani and Wmston Ntshona and directed by Athol Fugard and originally starred both Kani and Ntsona. But Motshabi didn’t allow the weight of reputation to intimidate his directing, choosing to focus on the story; “It is just a story; just a play; and I treated it as such. I am just telling a story set in a specific time. I had to find what makes this story...
Sizwe Banzi gets resurrected in style
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead is not dead after all. The 1970s theatrical classic has been brought back to life yet again. The play is currently running at the Laager Theatre at Johannesburg’s iconic Market Theatre ? albeit with a new cast. What the performers - Arthur Molepo and Omphile Molusi do in this redux of the classic play is not simply acting, it’s a case of celebrating life on stage. Molepo, who plays Sizwe Banzi, a migrant worker caught up in the madness of apartheid’s repressive pass laws, takes this character and brings it to life with a performance that borders on the magical. Mol...
Stage set for the Market Theatre
SHOWS MAKE WAVES DESPITE FUNDING WOES AS THE Market Theatre awaits the much-needed funding from the National Lotteries Distribution Board for its 2011 artistic programme, the theatre has caused ripples in the industry with the launch of three fully-booked shows within a week. The theatre kicked off its artistic programme, the funding of which can only take it to April and hereafter has to rely on its expected funding from the Lotto, by launching Songs of Migration last Tuesday, Sizwe Banzi is Dead on Wednesday, and Sunjata on Friday. All shows were fully-booked. Sunjata and Sizwe Banzi is Dea...
